There is a curious airiness to Lydia Millet’s novel Ghost Lights, despite its underlying tension. A pseudo-sequel to her 2008 How the Dead Dream, Ghost Lights finds married family man Hal, an IRS bureaucrat, sloughing off the confines of his everyday life to impulsively hop on a plane in search of his wife’s missing boss, 
The life of an actor remains endlessly fascinating, even as their minor crises of conscience and career seem more and more rote to the general public. For some reason, Esther Freud has been seduced by the glitz and glamour, and the result is her mildly diverting but ultimately disappointing Lucky Break 
The case of Sybil, the pseudonym for a young woman suffering from 17 multiple personalities as the result of some Gothic child abuse at the hands of her monstrous mother, became a cultural touchstone almost immediately upon the 1973 publication of Flora Rheta Schreiber’s nonfiction account of her treatment 
